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Dealing with the joint MBA program, across two cultures has started me thinking about how education affects, and is affected by, the culture that it is sat in. MBA programs were started in the US, and grew out of the development of industry from a production base to a marketing base. Initially engineers, and then finance people ran companies, but as commercial life became more complex, so the need for a more general business education grew and the MBA came into being.

Although today MBAs are offered all over the world, the US has put it's stamp on the qualification. The US culture of self-reliance, of ambition and of good education has formed the basis for all MBA programs, and in a sense it is an ambassidor of western business culture.

This is one of the reasons why other cultures see MBAs as being so vital to their commercial development and why it can be so difficult to transfer an MBA program from one country to another. The difficulties have to be addressed and overcome, otherwise the program becomes meaningless.

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